All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Class or Discussion
Saturday, July 25, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Community experts and local teens conduct workshops on activism and empowerment. Among the speakers: Dawson Barrett, an assistant his...
Thursday, July 23, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City civil rights activist Alvin Sykes first encountered former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn in 2007, when Coburn...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
From its earliest days as a fur-trading outpost to its heyday as a livestock center and current configuration as a city of pet lovers and barbecue...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Opening a five-day series of Urban Grown events—culminating in the...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Library launches a new series, Real/Modern: KC, that takes a humorous, opinionated, intimate, and informative look at the mode...
Thursday, June 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
A growing number of well-known companies including Google, Facebook, Intel, eBay, and LinkedIn have this much in common: They were founded or co-fo...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Japan is in the middle of a historic experiment. Nearly a quarter-century after the end of its post-World War II economic miracle, Prime Minister S...
Thursday, April 30, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek puts the value of quality teaching in stark economic terms. Place even a slightly above-averag...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South a...